Starlink shuts down its GPS-style cheat code. Researchers may unlock it anyway.

In 2021, a team led by Zak Kassas , director of the Autonomous Systems Perception, Intelligence, and Navigation (ASPIN) Laboratory at The Ohio State University, showed how electronically eavesdropping on signals from six Starlink satellites could pinpoint locations on Earth to within 8 meters of accuracy—although that required 13 minutes of tracking rather than delivering instantaneous results. …